Common vocabulary used in scientific papers

1. Verbs
To accomplish, accomplished (past); accomplished (participle) –

To achieve, achieved (past), achieved (participle) –

To aim, aimed (past), aimed (participle) –

To allow, allowed (past), allowed (participle) –

To argue, argued (past), argued (participle) –

To asses, assessed (past), assessed (participle) –

To appraise, appraised (past), appraised (participle) –

To attempt, attempted (past), attempted (participle) –

To be, was/were (past), been (participle) –

To base, based (past), based (participle) –

To become, became (past), become (participle) –

To build, built (past), built (participle) –

To carry out, carried out (past), carried out (participle) –

To choose, chose (past), chosen (participle) –

To claim, claimed (past), claimed (participle) –

To conduct, conducted (past), conducted (participle) –

To compromise, compromised (past), compromised (participle) –

To concern, concerned (past), concerned (participle) –

To deal, dealt (past), dealt (participle) –

To describe, described (past), described (participle) –

To develop, developed (past), developed (participle) –

To encompass, encompassed (past), encompassed (participle) –

To emphasize, emphasized (past), emphasized (participle) –

To enable, enabled (past), enabled (participle) –

To encourage, encouraged (past), encouraged (participle) –

To engage, engaged (past), engaged (participle) –

To enhance, enhanced (past), enhanced (participle) –

To ensure, ensured (past), ensured (participle) –

To establish, established (past), established (participle) –

To evaluate, evaluated (past), evaluated (participle) –

To fail, failed (past), fail (participle) –

To find, found (past), found (participle) –

To figure out, figured out (past), figured out (participle) –

To forecast, forecasted (past), forecasted (participle) –

To follow, followed (past), followed (participle) –

To fulfill, fulfilled (past), fulfilled (participle) –

To gain, gained (past), gained (participle) –

To gather, gathered (past), gathered (participle) –

To give, gave (past), given (participle) –

To guarantee, guaranteed (past), guaranteed (participle) –

To handle, handled (past), handled (participle) –

To happen, happened (past), happened (participle) –

To hold, held (past), held (participle) –

To involve, involved (past), involved (participle) –

To improve, improved (past), improved (participle) –

To include, included (past), included (participle) –

To increase, increased (past), increased (participle) –

To introduce, introduced (past), introduced (participle) –

To know, knew (past), known (participle) –

To lack, lacked (past), lacked (participle) –

To launch, launched (past), launched (participle) –

To lead, led (past), led (participle) –

To lose, lost (past), lost (participle) –

To make, made (past), made (participle) –

To maintain, maintained (past), maintained (participle) –

To measure, measured (past), measured (participle) –

To mention, mentioned (past), mentioned (participle) –

To notice, noticed (past), noticed (participle) –

To overcome, overcame (past), overcome (participle) –

To pay (attention), paid (attention), paid (attention) –

To play (a role), played (a role) (past), played (a role) (participle) –

To pose, posed (past), posed (participle) –

To present, presented (past), presented (participle) –

To prevent, prevented (past), prevented (participle) –

To propose, proposed (past), proposed (participle) –

To provide, provided (past), provided (participle) –

To raise, raised (past), raised (participle) –

To range, ranged (past), ranged (participle) –

To reach, reached (past), reached (participle) –

To realize, realized (past), realize (participle) –

To rely, relied (past), relied (participle) –

To remain, remained (past), remained (participle) –

To resume, resumed (past), resumed (participle) –

To see, saw (past), seen (participle) –

To seem, seemed (past), seemed (participle) –

To seek, sought (past), sought (participle) –

To set (up), set (up) (past), set (up) (participle) –

To settle, settled (past), settled (participle) –

To shape, shaped (past), shaped (participle) –

To show, showed (past), showed (participle) –

To solve, solved (past), solved (participle) –

To state, stated (past), stated (participle) –

To support, supported (past), supported (participle) –

To take, took (past), taken (participle) –

To take place, took place (past), taken place (participle) –

To try, tried (past) tried (participle) –

To undertake, undertook (past), undertaken (participle) –

To undergo, underwent (past), undergone (participle) –

To understand, understood (past), understood (participle) –

To vary, varied (past), varied (participle) –

To witness, witnessed (past), witnessed (participle) –